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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/38101225
Imagine this: you walk into a public restroom in China, but instead of just grabbing toilet paper… you have to scan a QR code and watch an ad first 😅. Only then will the machine dispense a tiny sheet of tissue. Don’t feel like watching? You can also pay 0.5 RMB (about $0.07) for a bit more paper 💸. This system is designed to cut down waste — some people would abuse free paper before. Now, it’s all about “watch an ad or pay a coin.” Would you sit through an ad for free toilet paper, or just drop the 0.5 yuan? 👀 . . .
Source: China Insider on Instagram.
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This is why I don’t eat in Restoraunts (besides the fact that I’m always broke).
China still has restrooms where you literally squat then piss and shit onto the floor, with hoses at the exit for you to wash your feet because of the nature of what you’re doing. There’s no toilet paper in them at all, you have to make sure you take your own in there along with a way too dispose of it.
Not knowing this when we first visited China, the women in our group were horrified and unprepared.
What this topic is about is an improvement on that.
As someone who lived in China for 7 years, the alternative is that the next best person who enters the bathroom takes all available paper home.
In my entire time there, I can count the number of times where paper was available on a single hand, with spare fingers.
Naturally, everybody carries a box of tissues at all times.
Lmao if someone tried this shit in the US all the dispensors would be kicked off the walls by the end of the day.
China is a whole other world than western countries. Having access to toilet paper, even paid access, in a public restroom is not common.
Either that, or I will find something else to wipe my ass on. It’s lose-lose for everybody really.
If their goal is to convince people to not wipe at all, this method will have some non-zero percent of success.
You’ve never been to China, have you?
Correct, but I think what I said would be true in any country.
This is a whole new level of enshitification.
Yeah, I’d be carrying some kind of tool to rip that fucker open.
lemmy feature request please - lemmy gold.
Awards made Reddit so much shittier, that would be a nightmare.
disagree, they are entirely different operating models. reddit was privately funded and eventually snehittified to become profitable. Lemmy is free, but still needs funds to operate. Might as well make it fun and rewaring to participation rather than just annoying banners whenever things get tight.
I will very happily never read “Thanks for the award, kind stranger!” or a string of cringy award speech edits again. I’m so happy they don’t exist here.
Alternatively there is !bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
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This is depressing :(
Watch the black mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits. Your walls are ads unless you pay, can’t even close your eyes.
Oh I definitely know that episode! It’s one of the scariest ones for me. And here we are not that may years after it aired with this already starting to become a reality. :(
how “capitalistic” of the “communists” lol.
He who does not work, shall not wipe.
- Владимир Ленин
How do you figure? In what way does this imply concentration of wealth?
I swear some of y’all think simply selling something is capitalist. Astounding how successful they’ve been at producing undereducated people in the west.
i thought it was pretty self explanitory but having to pay to wipe your ass in a public washroom, or watch ads to fuel more consumption seems pretty capitalistic in practice.
and undereducated? ill have you know i have a university degree, where i majored in porkin’ yer mum, and i minored in holding my nose and mouth closed while i did it.
The alternative that they currently have is there’s no toilet paper. Not that they’ve run out - it’s not even an option.
Would you rather have the option to get toilet paper by watching an ad/paying when you forgot to bring your own wipes, or not have that option and have no way to wipe? Pretty easy choice imo.
China is not the same as a western country.
Advertisement predominantly exists to encourage consumption, this is primarily a means to increase wealth
Oh ok flushes baby wipes.
This is because of people stealing toilet paper out of public restrooms
https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinas-fighting-toilet-paper-thieves-with-facial-recognition/
Yo first line of that says that many public restrooms don’t have have TP at all and you need to bring your own. What the fuck even is that system to begin with?!
It’s called a system that went fucking hard modernizing leaving large portions of people behind. All these problems are solved with a bidet imo.
How is this any different than Germany where oftentimes the entrance itself is behind a paywall?
They tried pay toilets in the states but people vandalized the shit out of them until they were gone. These days it can be hard to find public restrooms in places though.
Dropping in a coin vs what seems to be downloading some sort of an app or at least opening some shady websites on your fucking phone over your fucking mobile data is where I see it. Even if you used the payment option, you’d have to disclose your online payment information to the provider. Privacy nightmare.
Or simply imagine you just took your most violent shit of the century and then have an ad for hot mexican food or something.
Then I’m shitting on the door.
The entrance being behind a paywall is bad, but if you’re not aware of it before using the toilet this holds you hostage unable to get clean until you pay up, with either your money or your attention. I’d say this is a more evil design, even though both are evil.
Ain’t nobody stopping you from having dirty cheeks
You took the words right out of my mouth
Put them back in please
If you’re not fat you can just go through the side of the turn thingy sanifair uses for free
I guess you could also just go underneath but that seems even less dignified
Hop it like the NYC subway.
Germany doesn’t get everything right.
Berlin Hbf. They have a single set of toilets about half the size of what you’d get in a shopping center which cost €2 with turnstyle access for a station the size of a cathedral with something like 20 platforms. 🙈
And Austria
In Germany you’re paying to access the bathroom, not the “privilege” of wiping your ass
It sets precedent. You could extend that on anything. Doesn’t make the German pay or piss yourself thing any better though.
Boring dystopia
Or scrape my ass across their damned dispenser.
Fuck that noise.
Think about the cheap mother-fuckers who are going to leave with their shit in their pants because they don’t want to watch an ad or pay 7 cents
I’d argue that the people who decided to monetize toilet paper are cheaper
Shittier too
Bring your own toilet paper?
Also China public bathrooms smell like absolute crap I have no idea why. I had to pee in China and walked into a public bathroom on the side of the road. I almost puked
Yeah, most people in china already bring their own. The only time I’ve ever seen it offered for free was in a crazy high end shopping mall.
Many are just ‘squatty potties’ - is a hole in the floor and a tank below.
And yah, tourists are told to bring TP already since some bathrooms don’t have any.
😶
What do you mean by a tank below? For flushing or…?
All the squatty potties I encountered in Asia were plumbed the way a toilet in the US would be plumbed so the poop gets flushed elsewhere.
I hope the ones in China weren’t basically permanent porta potties….
It really varies. I just did a big tour of China in June and we saw many fancy, futuristic toilets in malls and hotels. We saw somewhat stinky but otherwise clean public toilets at parks and such. And we came across a couple of holes in the floor with a septic tank below ground, exposed to the air - and no TP provided. Those are rare now, from what I saw. (Septic tank was the word I couldn’t think of before) I’m no plumber though so I may be getting that word wrong still.
Septic tanks are a bit more specific, you appear to be referring to a pit latrine which most commonly will have a cesspit.
People kept stealing the toilet paper rolls. Poor elderly are notorious for this from what I heard
Ha! :) I never heard that before but that does make sense. I remember my American grandma hoarded supplies like this her whole life, long after the lean depression-era years she lived through. Every single pencil was used down to the nub. We got a serious talking-to if we tossed a milk bottle with more than a drop left in it.
